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TalkingFertility.com March 14, 2017 Should you be concerned about your right to utilizing in vitro fertilization (IVF) or surrogacy as a way to grow your family? Well, it all depends on what happens with current legislation pending in Congress and around the country.There are two bills now in committee in the US House of [...]

Jay Timmons and Rick Olson thought they’d have no legal trouble using a surrogate to birth their son. Then a rogue judge in Wisconsin pulled them into an 11-month legal battle. posted on Aug. 27, 2016, at 9:56 a.m. Tamar Lewin BuzzFeed Contributor Jay Timmons (left) and Rick Olson (right) with their three children. [...]

TIME FOR A DO-OVER Looking for another win. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz) WRITTEN BY Ananya Bhattacharya August 13, 2016 In the state of New Jersey, women can avoid out-of-pocket costs for infertility treatments—but only if they’re trying to conceive with a man. The New Jersey Infertility Mandate requires all insurance providers that cover at least 50 [...]

Melissa Brisman — a leading fertility lawyer and CEO of Reproductive Possibilities — has helped thousands of couples become parents through surrogacy over the past 18 years. But Brisman said she has never heard anything like the case of the same-sex couple who ended up spending $400,000 in legal fees in a protracted fight with [...]

Embryo matchmakers make it easier for potential donors and recipients to find each other by Eliza Barclay on May 9, 2016 vox.com A massive demographic shift is underway as more Americans attempt to have children well into their 30s and 40s. Most will succeed, but many collide with the brutality of biology: Infertility now affects [...]

Lindsay Podolak - BestofNJ.com March 25, 2016 | 10:00 am For many adults, the journey to have a baby is a relatively straightforward one. A couple decides when the time is right and after a few attempts, they become pregnant. Nine months later, their little baby boy or girl enters the world. But it’s not [...]

BY AARON COUCH AND DIANE HERBST 03/01/2016 AT 05:40 PM EST people.com Sherri Shepherd will continue to have to pay child support to ex husband Lamar Sally for a child the former couple had via a surrogate. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to hear the former The View host's case after an appeals court [...]

Written by Katie O'Reilly - Atlantic.com February 19, 2016 An ongoing legal battle between a gestational carrier of triplets and a father-to-be shows the messiness of surrogacy contracts. When a woman agrees to become a gestational surrogate—meaning she’ll gestate an IVF-created embryo as it grows into a fetus—she and the commissioning parents will typically sign [...]